Do permanent redirect solve the issue of duplicate content?

[Kashif-Amin]

Hi,

I have a product page on my site as below.

www.mysite.com/Main-category/SubCatagory/product-page.html

This page was accessible in both ways as below.

1. www.mysite.com/Main-category/SubCatagory/product-page.html

2. www.mysite.com/Main-category/product-page.html

This was causing duplicate title issue. So i permanently redirected one to other. But after more than a month and after many crawls, webmaster tools html improvement still shows duplicate title issue.

My question is that do permanent redirect solve duplicate content issue or something i am missing here?

[CleverPhD]

Sometimes things will take a while to roll out of Search Console.  It tends to be slow.

You may also want to put a self referencing canonical link on your final page

www.mysite.com/Main-category/SubCatagory/product-page.html

I have seen that help when Google gets "confused".

[MoosaHemani]

If the URL can be accessed via one page, there is no way Google will be considered as duplicate content. 301 redirects should certainly help avoid duplicate content profiles. But, when it comes to Google search console, it usually takes time to update things under it.

I personally like the idea by CelevePhD, adding rel canonical to your finally page will also help you confirming Google that what is the preferred version and after the crawl Google will deindex the alternate URL from the index.

Hope this helps!